Domhnall Gleeson Quotes

My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.

Love your parents, but don't have them as your mates.

If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

I always think that friends and family are off-bounds. I went into politics; they didn't.

I love my father. I disagreed with him. But he was my father. He was the boss.

Three of Donald Trump's kids have come forward to defend him, and called him 'an incredible dad and role model.' Donald was so moved that he wrote one of them back into his will. 'I'm not gonna tell you which one . . . it's Donald Jr.'

I think people like to think I'm in some way financially dependent on my family - on my dad - but the fact of the matter is I've been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That's something people don't know or understand.

My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.

Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

My brother is an agent, so he is in the business. Is he my agent? No, no, no. That would never work.

My boyfriends love my dad. He's like the perfect in-law to have. In fact, if my boyfriend and I are in a fight, my dad will choose his side. Always! He loves me, but it is tough love with me.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.

There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.

I've never had to rebel against my parents; I never had that sort of teen-angst thing where you didn't get along with them. My dad's always been my buddy.